Something to Consider. . .

"[. . .] I thought that to teach wrting was to teach my students how to keep on reading until we all saw as clearly as we could what was driving the writer. What, we would ask of the manuscript, was the larger preoccupation here? the true experience? the real subject? Not that such questions could be answered, only that it seemed vital to me that they be asked. To approach the work in hand as any ordinary reader might was to learn not how to write but--more important by far--why one was writing." Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story

If we're reading closely, we're, in a sense, writing our interpretation, we're coming to understand the text and the world slightly (slightly) better (a bit at a time).

How can we make what we read come alive in what we write critically and influence what we write creatively?